IndiGo joins Operation Kaveri: 231 Indian evacuees shout ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ after reaching New Delhi

Flight carrying 231 Indian passengers evacuated from conflict-torn Sudan reached New Delhi on Saturday. The Indian evacuees shouted slogans like “Bharat Mata ki jai,” and “Vande Mataram” and also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for rescuing them from Sudan under Operation Kaveri.

One of the Indian passengers shared the tough humanitarian crisis faced by them in Sudan. “It has become very difficult to stay in Sudan due to ongoing conflict. There is a shortage of food and drinking water, moreover, there are continuous bombings, and rockets are being fired. None of us were coming out of our houses. The food canteen was bombed. It is very difficult to flee also, travelling in the vehicle is also not safe, they can bomb buses too,” said an Indian electrician from Buxar, Bihar evacuated from Sudan.

Indian airline IndiGo joined the mission and departed from Jeddah with 231 trapped Indians to help the Union government’s continuing repatriation efforts known as Operation Kaveri. Indigo participates in Operation Kaveri. A flight from Jeddah to New Delhi carried 231 Indians. By the fifth outbound flight, about 1600 people had arrived or taken off for India. Happy travels. The Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, tweeted, “Our Mission continues.”

“We have offered our services for charter flights to Jeddah under the Indian Government’s Operation Kaveri rescue mission of our citizens from Sudan. We are still awaiting details from the ministry to launch these flights, nothing has been confirmed as of yet,” IndiGo Airlines said in a statement.
Airlines had earlier expressed their willingness in participating in the ongoing evacuation of stranded Indians in the strife-torn African country under ‘Operation Kaveri’.

IndiGo said it remains committed to supporting the Central government’s mission to evacuate Indian citizens from Sudan.
The airline crew stepped forward to respond to the critical humanitarian need of the hour, enabling the safe return of the stranded citizens back to their families and homes.

Earlier, on Friday, Mos MEA V Muraleedharan informed that so far, 2,100 Indians have arrived in Jeddah, as part of ‘Operation Kaveri’.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said INS Sumedha, which is stationed at Port Sudan, had also left the crisis-hit country with 300 passengers onboard, for Jeddah.